The Outsiders
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How ‘The Outsiders’ Invented the YA Novel April 11, 2024
S.E. Hinton’s 1967 debut novel “The Outsiders” is often credited with (or blamed for) originating the entire genre of young adult literature, known as YA. The book, about rival gangs of Oklahoma teenagers, was slow to catch on initially but has since...
Reads to Lose Your Mind To April 11, 2024
I think the thing I most wanted to convey in Juliet the Maniac, more than any of the other dozens of things I was trying to convey about what it means to suffer from mental illness as a young person in America, was how devastating it is to realize th...
The Right Balance April 09, 2024
“The outside pressure of Communism” helped unify the American Right during the Cold War—that’s how Matthew Continetti put it, as we spoke in the dining room of the American Enterprise Institute, where he serves as director of domestic policy studies....
A Conversation with Lauren Oyler April 04, 2024
The one time I met Lauren Oyler in person was in New York in the spring of 2018. I had been closely following her work as a critic and admired her intelligence and fearlessness. That exuberant night, she sat mostly quietly, with a look of anger, thro...
Dark Matter April 04, 2024
In the early aughts, Frank Warren ran a medical document delivery business in Germantown, Maryland. It was a monotonous job, involving daily trips to government offices to copy thousands of pages of journal articles for pharmaceutical companies, law ...
Hustle of the Hit King April 01, 2024
Pete Rose first set eyes, through the intermediary of binoculars, on his future wife at River Downs, a horse track outside of Cincinnati. If his life were a book, and it is in Keith O’Brien’s marvelous Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, ...
S.E. Hinton Is Tired of Talking About ‘The Outsiders' February 02, 2023
In late October 2022, a big-time streaming star returned to the city where it all began for him. Ralph Macchio (most recently of “Cobra Kai” fame) was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to promote his memoir, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me. Hosted by Magic City B...
The Himalayan Tragedy That Changed Mountaineering February 02, 2023
In 1976, Nanda Devi Unsoeld, the daughter of legendary alpinist Willi Unsoeld, died while climbing the massive Indian peak for which she was named. Decades later, friends, family, and surviving expedition members offer new insights into what went wro...
Can Poetry Heal a Broken World? February 01, 2023
Ada Limón told her speaking agent she couldn’t take the mysterious late-morning phone call. She had physical therapy. Her agent suggested, gently, that she reschedule. She did. And hopped onto a Zoom call with seven people, including Librarian of Con...
Brad Phillips’s Cinematic Myth-Making February 01, 2023
At de Boer gallery, many of Phillips’s realistic paintings are created from photographic source material. His photogenic wife, the artist Cristine Brache, is the subject of a number of these works, in real and imagined spaces. One painting, Cristine ...
